Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
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I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
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'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.
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There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.
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I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.
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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
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The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.
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I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
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I'm a bit of a workaholic.
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I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.
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The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
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I always kept myself fairly fit.
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I never really think too much about my voice.
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I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
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Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
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I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'
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That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
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Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!
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You can road-test relationships.
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Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.